226 Quotes by Daniel Keyes

Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you’ve shaved his ego.

Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.

It’s amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.

What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world?

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes – how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

Who’s to say my light is better than your darkness?

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don’t know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.

The answer can’t be found in books – or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You’ve got to find the answer inside you – feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you’ve got to learn to trust yourself.

It’s a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don’t remember it.